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- 12 March 2009
  10:31
- A spiritual crisis causes an economic crisis. Under the patronage of His Beatitude Lubomyr, concerts of academic music will be conducted in Ukraine After Easter, on May 1, 2, 3 and 5, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church extends an invitation to concerts of academic music "With faith and love." On May 1 a concert will take place in Ivano-Frankivs’k, on May 2 in Ternopil’, May 3 in Lviv, and May 5 in Kyiv.
- 12 March 2009
  10:30
- The Church plays an important role in the case of the social adaptation of immigrants On March 10 in Kyiv, an inter-religious round table, "Feeling the heart-beats of the immigrant: Who and what to expect from the return of Ukrainian migrant workers," organized by the Commission of the UGCC in Matters of Immigrants jointly with the Open Ukraine Fund, took place. "We put before ourselves a double purpose. First of all, to turn the attention of...
- 12 March 2009
  10:27
- The memory of the Kobzar was honored in Moldova On March 9, 2009, Ukrainian diplomats and representatives of Ukrainian civic organizations and the faithful of the Parish of the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God of the UGCC in the city of Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, gathered at 14:00 near the monument of Taras Shevchenko to place flowers and honor the memory of the Great Kobzar on the occasion of...
- 12 March 2009
  10:26
- A theatrical way of the cross On March 8, 2009, young men and women of the Obnova (Renewal) society of Ukrainian Catholic students of the city of Ivano-Frankivs’k put on a theatrical way of the cross in the churchyard of the Church of Christ the King. It was conducted under the spiritual leadership of Fr. Yosafat Fitel’, OSBM.
- 10 March 2009
  08:39
- Bishop Ken (Nowakowski) calls the faithful of the eparchy to pray not only for numerous vocations but also for their perfect culmination “For its growth the Church needs good spiritual leaders, which means, first of all, priests who are well-qualified and duly-appointed for ministry.” So wrote Bishop Ken (Nowakowski), Eparchial Bishop of New Westminister (Canada), and head of the Patriarchal Commission on Priestly Formation in Seminaries of the UGCC. The document underlying Bishop...
- 10 March 2009
  08:35
- "Passion prayers" started in Kyiv On the First Sunday of Lent, "Passion prayers," which will continue every Sunday at different parishes throughout Lent, began at all the parishes of Kyiv. As the press-service of the Kyiv Archeparchy reported, the purpose of such prayers is to experience Lent in a special way, engaging oneself in active Christian service through works of mercy and...
- 09 March 2009
  08:17
- "The road to church" (TV program) With the blessing of Rev. Bishop Mykolay (Simkaylo), Eparch of Kolomyja-Chernivtsi, the channel NTK broadcasts the weekly TV program "The road to church." The program aims to answer a question which touches the most important thing in the life of everybody, the salvation which the Savior Jesus Christ grants....
- 09 March 2009
  08:16
- Bible prayer book printed in the Archeparchy of Kyiv Recently in the Archeparchy of Kyiv a Biblical prayer book has been published which is to activate the practice of the domestic reading of holy scripture. The prayer book is a part of the realization of a short-term plan of evangelization accepted at the Council of the Kyiv Archeparchy on the theme of evangelization....
- 09 March 2009
  08:15
- To root out sin from our souls. A retreat-meeting of the community Mothers in Prayer took place This is one of the theses the leit-motif of which was the retreat-meeting of the community of servants of the Lviv Archeparchy movement Mothers in Prayer, marking the beginning of Lent. The retreat-meetings’ lecturer was the spiritual pastor of the movement, Proto-presbyter Mikhailo Dymyd. In general, there were a few thematic blocks. The retreat began...
- 09 March 2009
  08:12
- Committee of the CCEE and CEC: Europe needs more respect for creation All the Churches of Europe have to make their authentic contribution for the preservation of the natural environment. This is the conviction of the members of the General Committee of the CCEE and CEC, the meeting of which took place at the end of February, this year, in Hungary.
- 09 March 2009
  08:05
- Council on the theme of evangelizations in the Donets’k and Kharkiv Exarchate Evangelization was the main theme of the Patriarchal Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church that took place in Lviv-Bryukhovychi on September 2-9, 2008. Exactly this Synod in its 20th decision, as part of the preparation for the Patriarchal Synod of 2009, the theme of which also is evangelization, ordered that at the beginning of Lent in...
- 09 March 2009
  08:04
- "If there are no just people, justice does not exist," Pope Benedict XVI about the reasons for the economic crisis The reasons for the economic crisis can be found in egoism. About this Pope Benedict XVI spoke during a meeting on Thursday, February 26, with the clergy of the Rome diocese. We will recall that this was a meeting conducted in a spirit of sincere interaction, during which the Holy Father answered questions asked of him....
- 09 March 2009
  08:02
- Charitable action of Caritas of the Sambir-Drohobych Eparchy During Lent Caritas of the Sambir-Drohobych Eparchy will conduct a traditional charitable action, the «Easter lottery.» All the money collected during the action will be used for the necessities of children with needy families and youth with problems of mental development.
- 09 March 2009
  07:52
- About the moral aspects of artificially inseminating a woman A medical clinic in Los Angeles, in the United States of America, which specializes in the industry of artificial insemination, declared for future parents the possibility to choose the sex of the child, as also some certain aesthetical qualities: color of eyes, hair, and so on.
- 09 March 2009
  07:51
- About the construction of the Patriarchal Cathedral in winter “In these days, the making of the special suspended scaffolding into the cathedral was completed. Work on installing internal elements with glass-fiber-concrete, which are joined into one with the internal shell of the central dome, began recently (this shell was set in its place in January of this year, – aut.).” So Fr. Petro Fedyuk, CSSR, reported for...

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We can imagine what the prayer of the prisoners in the Russian torture centers in the Ukrainian Kharkiv region was like – Head of the UGCC on the 206th day of the war 17 September

A vast cemetery, a mass burial, was found near the city of Izyum, in which more than 400 innocently killed and tortured people have already been...

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